From Publishers Weekly
The assorted writers and editors who live year-round in the Hamptons are a perfect target for satire, and Sheed here "gleefully riddles them," wrote PW. "The laughs turn a little sour toward the end, in an oddly grating denouement, but until then the book is a constant fizz of delight."
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Jonathan Oglethorpe, a burnt-out editor at a distinguished New York publishing firm, lives year-round in the Hamptons, where he spends his evenings at Jimmy's Bar discussing sports and "summer people" with other New York expatriates. Oglethorpe is secretly incorporating these people into an elaborate roman a clefthat is, until he discovers that another Jimmy's regular is doing exactly the same thing. Each is a character in the other's book. This sounds like an ideal fictional premise for Sheed, who established standards for the "publishing" novel in such comic masterpieces as Max Jamison and Office Politics, but this work fails to measure up. Oglethorpe's dreary narrative voice defeats the famous Sheed wit. Fans will be disappointed. Edward B. St. John, Loyola Marymount Univ. Lib., Los Angeles
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
